Kathleen Lynn

Kathleen Lynn was an Irish Volunteers commander during the 1916 Easter Rising. She worked as a medical doctor before becoming involved with the Irish Republican Brotherhood, holding meetings in the basement of her medical school and interacting with IRB leaders such as Constance Markievicz. During the uprising, she took over Sean Connolly's squad on his death, and she participated in the defense of City Hall, during which she ordered her soldiers to fight to the death, as their deaths would be symbolic.